I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carpal tunnel syndrome
maze of streets/paths/tunnels etc
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the maze of narrow streets
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I was led through a maze of corridors.
the tunnel entrance
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At high tide, the tunnel entrance is totally submerged.
tunnel vision (= when you can only see what you are directly looking at )
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A pupil with tunnel vision may have difficulty finding the words written on the blackboard.
tunnel vision
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I’ve got tunnel vision when it comes to what I want to do.
wind tunnel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
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They went down the dark tunnel .
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We are in a dark tunnel .
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Some light at the end of the dark tunnel of life.
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The train roared past a local stop, then on through the dark tunnel .
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Shining her torch Lais led them along a small dark tunnel , lugging aside a pile of crates to reveal a manhole.
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Then he saw the path, leading away into yet another dark tunnel mouth.
long
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There are along the route four long tunnels , each of which would have required attention.
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Beyond the Hai Van Pass we entered a long tunnel .
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At nearly 2 miles long , at the time it was built, it was the longest tunnel in the world.
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The arduous task of legging through a long tunnel like that under Castle Hill at Dudley could take over 3 hours.
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Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse.
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Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel .
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I felt as if I was at the end of a long tunnel where some one was kicking my legs.
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This unexpectedly burrows beneath the grounds of Ingleborough Hall in two long tunnels .
underground
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There's an underground tunnel that goes from here to an empty tomb in the churchyard.
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Small leaks in underground or underwater tunnels are not unusual.
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Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse.
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It feels like an underground tunnel down there, the walls thick and heavy, the air damp and cool.
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Earlier in the day passengers were forced to walk through an underground tunnel after a train partially derailed.
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Gophers, which travel via underground tunnels , make a fan-shaped mound of dirt.
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C., has an underground tunnel running from the government offices to the Capitol.
■ NOUN
channel
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Will he take note of the campaign to sink the link, as the channel tunnel rail link passes Gravesend and Northfleet?
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The Channel tunnel project is the largest enterprise of its kind to be financed from private sources.
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There was also a £12m provision against possible losses from its participation in the Channel tunnel construction consortium.
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He also described the various channel tunnel options currently being studied by the Ministry.
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I think that I am the only hon. Member to have served on two Select Committees on the channel tunnel .
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Mr. Mans Is my hon. Friend aware that people up in the north-west welcome the prospect of the channel tunnel being opened?
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Does he think that that is the way that one should plan the freight movement from the north-west through the channel tunnel ?
entrance
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The resident here has clamped his opponent and is lifting him away from the tunnel entrance .
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Half way down was a stone arch over the tunnel entrance .
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Railway builders gave a special dignity and significance to the treatment of tunnel entrances .
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The nettles in the tunnel entrance had been partially flattened.
railway
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Sites investigated included a disused railway tunnel and bogland in Nad.
vision
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Something not unlike tunnel vision ensues in the case of black kids.
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Each group has its insular concerns and each is locked within the tunnel vision of its own experience and tangible self-interest.
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I just looked straight down the track, set my tunnel vision and climbed into my blocks.
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Such proposals are typical of the tunnel vision that has characterized most of our economic models.
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And many, surely, that our human tunnel vision is unable to perceive.
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But such thinking can produce temporal tunnel vision .
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I had three children, a home to run ... and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned.
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He has tunnel vision when he is doing well.
wall
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They pass a stone doorway in the tunnel wall , but by-pass it in favour of a more obvious way out.
wind
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Work includes full-scale experiments, wind tunnel studies and computational fluid dynamics.
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Fall through the platform, and unless you're either amazingly brave or stupid head down the wind tunnel to the left.
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The reverse acoustic ceilings amplify the din to a decibel range appropriate for a wind tunnel .
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It was the wind tunnel which gave birth to the characteristic shape of the Boeing 747.
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But the wind tunnel specifications called for this wall to be able to withstand seventy-five pounds a square foot.
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During wind tunnel tests on the car, at the development stage, water was added.
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By ensuring that only the most promising designs enter the wind tunnel , it has made physical evaluation more cost effective.
■ VERB
build
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In my view there was only one hope, and that was to build the tunnel using private venture capital.
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There were good reasons for the enemy to build the tunnels where they did.
dig
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Deeper and deeper he dug , following the tunnel into the bank.
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We had some bulldozers, and they tried to dig out the tunnels .
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Trespass can therefore be committed by a person who digs a tunnel under land or who abuses the airspace.
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Everyone dug tunnels and trenches under fire, sometimes hitting hard soil and only advancing five or six yards a day.
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I could dig a tunnel round the door.
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I could dig a tunnel right out.
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Burglars smashed in the steel shutters and even dug a tunnel under the building in an attempted raid.
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Moreover the moles dug hundreds of tunnels under their line of march.
drive
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They drove on through a tunnel and then the landscape became more arid.
emerge
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With a roar it emerged from the tunnel and ground to a halt along the platform.
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He was emerging from the tunnel .
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In the meantime Koquillion emerges from the tunnel door.
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The bats normally emerge from the tunnel at about 8 p. m. to take advantage of the prime bug-hunting time.
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Roland emerged from tunnels of shelving into Blackadder's icily lit domain.
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Jarvis slipped away and on to the platform to feel the wind blow through, ahead of the train emerging from the tunnel .
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Thus did I emerge from the night tunnel of restless body movement.
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So do I. They emerge from the tunnel like an ad for mushy peas.
enter
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Fights take place when a male enters a tunnel where another male is already resident.
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He entered another little lighted tunnel of a street.
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By ensuring that only the most promising designs enter the wind tunnel , it has made physical evaluation more cost effective.
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Beyond the Hai Van Pass we entered a long tunnel .
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He must prevent another train entering the tunnel .
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The road passed between stands of tall green bamboo, as though entering a tunnel .
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As it passes I turn and watch it enter Hadley Wood South tunnel .
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Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
light at the end of the tunnel
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After a year of declining profits, there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
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After all the problems we've had we're finally beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
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For Jane there is some light at the end of the tunnel, but many anorexia sufferers continue to suffer in silence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A rock dam was erected to keep bat fans out of the tunnel .
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About eighteen people escaped from this tunnel and they were not all recaptured until four days later.
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He was emerging from the tunnel .
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Irrigation tunnels of water ran beside the beds and not far from small thatched-roof houses.
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Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes.
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Over the next few hours, faces and figures passed like the tableaux of a funhouse tunnel .
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Police feared that du Pont might try to flee through a series of tunnels beneath the house.
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The construction works on the tunnel would disrupt one of the colony's main breeding grounds.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After days of digging, the prisoners finally tunnelled their way out of the camp and escaped.
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Special drilling equipment is being used to tunnel beneath the sea bed.
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worms tunnelling through the mud
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It snows throughout the winter in Jozankei, and it gets so deep, the people tunnel under the immovable drifts.
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They had tunnelled down into the plateau, and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow.
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They may watch the sand shifting as they tunnel their hands into it.
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Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed.